Delete ALL versions of same movie at once (without confirming each file separately)

Feature Suggestions
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Server Version#: 4.108.0

On my server, I the a folder structure, where I keep two versions of each Movie/TV Show in different qualities in two different folders.

Example:

Movies\1080p
\Jurrassic Park
\Forrest Gump

Movies\4k
\Jurrassic Park
\Forrest Gump

TVShows\1080p
\Smurfs
\Simpsons

TVShows\4k
\Smurfs
\Simpsons

On Plex, both Movie Directories (Movies\1080p and Movies\4k) are part of the same “Movie” Library. Equally, both TV Show directories make up one Plex TV Show Library.

Plex correcly maps the correpsonding movies together, so that I only see “Forrest Gump” once, and Plex will chose the best quality for me depending on which device I watch it from.

What I want is that when i click “Delete Movie” or “Delete TV Show”, the two files behind the movie/tv show get deleted directly.

Right now, I get asked which of the two files I want to delete (“Please select file”), and then I need to delete a second time, so that the movie / TV show is truly gone.

Can we add a setting where the user can define that on delete all files belonging to the movie/tv show are jointly deleted?

NB: This is NOT about optimised versions. This is about executing a delete entry on a library item (say “Forest Gump”), to then delete all movies within that library that are mapped to that library entry (there may multiple Forest Gump-Versions in the file system).

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I moved this to Feature Suggestions .

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Since you’ve setup two different sources for the library I think it’s asking because of the different sources not the different files.

I keep both 4k and 1080p versions of a film in the same directory and I don’t get asked which file when I delete a title from Plex - it deletes both files.

I can see a reason to confirm file deletion with two different sources being referenced - particularly if people are running multiple servers or sharing source folders between them.

Maybe a solution would be that when prompted “which file”, there’s also an option for “all”.

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Yes, I can’t have both versions in the same folder.

What you suggest, Insomnic_1, would work:

> Maybe a solution would be that when prompted “which file”, there’s also an option for “all”.